Therese zu Oettingen-Spielberg

Princess Therese zu Oettingen-Spielberg (1909–1991) was a German paleontologist known for her work as a paleontological curator at the Palaeontological Museum, Munich. She is credited with saving much of the museum's geological collection during the 1944 bombing of Munich.

Biography Therese zu Oettingen-Spielberg was born in 1909. of the House of Oettingen. She held a doctorate in zoology. in the Nördlinger Ries. Oettingen-Spielberg, Dehm, and Vidal collected many fossils from the Middle Eocene. Oettingen-Spielberg and Dehm went on the study the mammalian fossils collected. They described the fossils together in 1958, and named four new genera and seven new species, including the early whale relatives Gandakasia and Ichthyolestes.

Oettingen-Spielberg continued to work as a curator at the Palaeontological Museum, Munich until the 1970s. She died in 1991.